Edg wrote: > But it was a big fat lie and every teacher knew that > the mantras were the names and attributes of Gods > that the Holy Tradition ADORED, and today, we openly > SELL PRAYERS TO THESE GODS and call them yagyas. > TM has nothing to do with Gods and a Holy Tradition and nothing to do with yagyas and prayers. TM is a totally secular practice; TM is not a religion. TM mantras have no semantic meaning.
Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Judy Stein Date: Tues, Jun 17 2003 1:29 am Subject: Re: Is TM a Religion http://tinyurl.com/2un3hw Final note for now: to be able to say whether TM is a religion, you have to know what TM *is*, what its characteristics are. If you're unclear about its characteristics, if you can't give a detailed, accurate description of it, you won't be able to say whether or not those characteristics add up to a religion. Of course, you also have to know what are the unique characteristics of a religion.
